Finance Business Partner – e-commerce
Reports to: Senior Manager – Finance Business Partners
Position Summary:
Our e-commerce business is a high growth, international operation that significantly contributes to total group revenue via direct-to-consumer websites, third party marketplaces and digital concessions.
The role is varied and includes full responsibility for business partnering, periodic reporting and financial control.
Internal Reporting
- Deliver timely and accurate monthly management information to the e-commerce team with commentary that demonstrates comprehensive understanding of cost drivers and variance analysis to budget and prior year.
- Hold commercial review meetings with the e-commerce Director and the e-commerce teams to feedback actionable insight into the result and improve business performance.
- Identify drivers of overspend and support and challenge the e-commerce team to ensure delivery and control of their budget.
- Continuous evolution of month end reporting and analysis to better communicate financial performance to key stakeholders to support decision making.
- Support the development of a culture of financial awareness and cost control.
Planning
- Work closely with the e-commerce team to deliver annual budget and forecasting cycles to agreed deadlines.
- Support the e-commerce team with financial planning and decision support, using the insight and knowledge gained from internal reporting.
Financial Control
- Through your review, ensure that your team delivers accurate and complete financial accounting in line with the month-end timetable.
- Ensure robust period end balance sheets are performed to agreed deadlines, reviewed and signed off and any risks or opportunities are highlighted.
Other
- Develop and mature a close working relationship with the e-commerce team so that finance input on strategic, commercial and operational decisions is sought as a matter of course.
- Day to day management one direct report.
- Ensure their learning and development needs are met by setting objectives, coaching and providing constructive feedback through regular one-to-ones.
- Manage team workload, identify future resourcing requirements and support the recruitment process.
- Significant involvement in the year-end process, preparation of deliverables for the audit and key contact for the auditors during the audit process.
- Ongoing non-business as usual project work within the finance team as and when required.
Qualifications
- Qualified accountant with 3+ year PQE working in a large company.
- e-commerce experience essential.
- Resilient and able to thrive in a faced-paced environment, juggling competing priorities.
- Self-motivated with a desire to drive improvements in a high growth business
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme
In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service.
The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour’s kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology.
Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do.
As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces.
Welcome to our journey.